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Hello,
If you follow the link below you will find many many papers on
programming contests. I am posting them here because I need a help
on testing the correction of the data I used. I used some world finals
data to find out the performances of different countries. My request
to the readers is to report me any errors in the data I have presented.
Because it is not unusual to make mistakes about finding the country
where a university is located. The title of my paper is
"Analyzing Programming Contest Statistics" and my name is S. Manzoor.
Ofcourse my paper has many typos which I am not currently interested in those because the one on the web is not the final version.
And of course as a bonus u can read the other papers which r more
interesting than mine.

The link:
http://www.bwinf.de/competition-workshop/papers.html

You can mail me my mistakes at shahriar_manzoorATyahoo.com or send me a pm. Other comments (preferably bad, public or private) are also welcome.

-Shahriar
PS: Make Sure that you read the revised version and preferbly the high quality. Although a map of the high quality version is corrupted.

Thanks.

There are some more serious errors in the version that is on the web like I have called Africa a subcontinent which is actually a continent. And some grammatical mistakes are very distrurbing.

But my request is if you find that your country is presented wrongly then inform me. For example:

"My report says that no team from italy has participated in 2005 regionals" - which I find a little odd with common sense. So I would be happy if any italian can post a counter example (An italian team participating in an ICPC regional of 2005) etc.

-Shahriar

Well, I think you are right. Teams from Italy would be in SWERC, and I can't remember seeing any team from Italy last year.